Bourvil

Léon Duchemin, Norman restaurateur

Sophie Desmarets

Maria Duchemin, sister of Léon

Peter McEnery

Jeff, the downed British airman

Sara Franchetti

Juliette Duchemin, daughter of Léon

Jean Poiret

Armand, resistance leader and double agent

Reinhard Kolldehoff

Lieutenant Heinrich Jakobus Steinbichler aka 'Totor'

Pino Caruso

Lieutenant Friedrich, Rommel's driver

Terry-Thomas

Commander Perry of British HQ

Roland Lesaffre

Fake resistance fighter full of tics

Jacques Balutin

Resistant gendarme

Robert Le Béal

Officer of the British HQ

Jacques Préboist

Ernest

Jess Hahn

British colonel

Guy Delorme

German sailor

Jackie Sardou

Angèle Charlus, wife of the painter

Frank Williams

Clergyman

Jean-Pierre Zola

Colonel Muller

Georges Staquet

Hippolyte, leader of the resistance

John Eppler

Erwin Rommel

Patrick Préjean

Officer of the British HQ

Annabel Leventon

Sybil, British non-commissioned officer

Janine Dill

Passerby

Antoine Baud

Feldgendarme

Anthony Stuart

Officer of the British HQ

Pierre Decazes

SS soldier

Roger Lumont

French chef in London

Michel Robin

Shoemaker of shoes for Rommel

Rudy Lenoir

German non-commissioned officer

Jean Rupert

British HQ order

Fernand Guiot

German corporal of 'Totor'

William Mervyn

Protestant Bishop, Jeff's father

Billy Kearns

Training camp commander

Marcel Gassouk

German corporal

Jean Moulard

Gestapo policeman

Gerald Campion

Clergyman

Peter Myers

Colonel in the R.A.F.

Roger Guillo

Prunier, cook in London

Paul Savatier

Prison guard

Roger Mailles

Gendarme

Bernard Saint-Jacques

SS soldier

Roger Trapp

Tramp in prison

Bill Horsley

R.A.F. orderly

Jacques Marbeuf

German non-commissioned officer

Rico López

Albert

Norman Mitchell

Bobby

Stephen Yardley

Bobby

Maurice Auzel

British soldier (uncredited)